Dear Friends,
I recoil at the thought of government having the power to “Take over” any company that it sees as a “threat to the economy”. Who decides what constitutes a threat to the economy? Presumably… the President.
It boggles my mind that people who hold their fellow man in such low regard, (that we the people are so inept that we need the government to “help” us), they would invest such power in the hands of one man. If we need the government to decide what temperature to keep our homes. We must be pretty inept. But, if we are all such buffoons, who is capable of running all of our lives? Only a god could be so omnipotent to competently run all of our lives…
That is power that will no sooner be given then it will be abused. People are people. Any man or woman given too much power with too little oversight will abuse the power. In this case, a cabal of three men, can control any firm they want? The real power is in the threat of using this power.
Say some firm was adamantly supporting a political question against the President. All the President would have to say is that the company is engaged in some fictitious nefarious affair… The firm would have to give in. Companies that answer to shareholders must be pragmatic.
To say that some person is above such use of such power is to call him or her inhuman. I think I, wouldn’t abuse such power… I am sure most people consciously think the same. But you know in your heart that someday, under the right circumstances, you and I and everyone else, would abuse the power… So what is the real argument?
If even this short treatise shows the utter insanity of the notion of this power being given to the President, pragmatically, why even debate it? Because the President is a cult of personality. He has the charisma and the political clout to get the power… To hope that he or any other president wouldn’t in some way abuse such power is to hope he is inhuman. To hope he is inhuman is to think him a god. That is the path to the god king…
